Yan Pritzker is the CTO and cofounder of Swan Bitcoin, an automated bitcoin only investing app aiming to be the best onramp to bitcoin. He is also the author of Inventing Bitcoin.
On this episode, he and NLW discuss:
How immigrating from the Soviet Union taught Yan about capital controls
Buying bitcoin at $30 in 2011
Why the type of capital available shapes what type of startups entrepreneurs found
Why venture capitals focused investments away from bitcoin
The emergence of a bitcoin only startup scene
Starting a startup during the COVID-19 crisis
Why bitcoin’s scarcity is its most important property
